David Wheatley The President of Planet Earth Deals

Product Name: The President of Planet Earth

Product Category: Books in Media

Manufacturer: David Wheatley

Product Features :

• No features available.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award.In his fifth collection of poems, David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home, Ireland and Scotland, to engage issues of globalism, identity, and language.He takes inspiration from the Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, self-nominated President of Planet Earth, who in a state of apocalyptic rapture envisioned a new world culture, its rise and its dramatic undoing.In The President of Planet Earth Wheatley brings an experimental sensibility to bear on questions of land and territory, channelling the messianic aspirations of modernism into subversive comedy.We move between Pictish pre-history, the imaginary South American nation ofaA A aA A `Oblivia', aA A and post-independence referendum Scotland.Wheatley marries classical, Gaelic, Scots and continental traditions.He deploys several styles - prose poetry; concrete poetry; translations from Middle Irish, Latin and French; sestinas and sonnets in Scots - to heady effect.The President of Planet Earth refashions language and the world it shapes, devising a transformative poetics.

Why compare prices for David Wheatley ?

ShopMerit works with hundreds of UK retailers to provide you with the best possible prices for Books, deals and retailer vouchers codes. So comparing prices on Books just like The President of Planet Earth is easy and also can save your hard earned cash when shopping online.

We’re pretty sure that you’ll find the best price for a David Wheatley at ShopMerit.com.